Friday, February 2, 2018

Researching Language and Culture: Methodology

Linguistic Anthropologists draw on an eclectic mixture of research methods. 

  • Participant Observation
  • Interviews
  • Surveys and questionnaires
  • Naturally Occurring Conversations
    • overhearing
    • media
  • Experimental Methods
    • Guising and Matched-Guise tests
    • Peer Interviewing and the Observer's Bias
    • Linguistic Insecurity Tests (measuring hyper-correction)
    • Attitudinal Surveys
    • Conversational analysis
      • CA
      • Goffman
  • Ethical Considerations
    • ethical obligation to the people that they study
    • informed consent
    • reciprocity

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